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President, 
TIMOTHY DWIGHT. D. D., LL. D., Preat., Yale University. 

fHANCIS L. PATTON, D. D , LL. D., SETH LOW, LL. D.. 

Prest., Princeton University Preet., Columbia Colle««. 

N. A. CALKINS, Superintendent. 
School Extension. 

W. T. HARRIS, LL. D., SETH T. STEWART, General Secretary, 

United States Commissioner of Education. P. O. Box 192, Brooklyn. N. T. 



CONSTITUTION 

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[Provisional.] 

The state Board of Directors of the University and School 
Extension is organized under the following Constitution, which is 
a part of the general Constitution of the University and School 
Extension. This Board shall consist of life members, who shall be 
Presidents of Colleges named by the Executive Committee of the 
National Board, and of representatives of the local Boards of 
Directors. 

The Board shall have legislative authority over all matters 
pertaining to the University and School Extension in the State. 



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2 UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. , « a A 

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It shall not only undertake to accomplish' »4ihe specific designs of 
the University and School Extension, but it shall discuss, adopt, 
and, as far as possible, execute measures that may advance the 
cause of education in the state. 

The Board, being duly incorporated, shall be a self-perpetua- 
ting body with power to increase or decrease the number of its 
members. This power, however, shall, not interfere with the right 
of the local Boards to representation, nor to the life tenure to 
which reference has already been made. 

The State Board shall organize the work and the workers of 
the University and School Extension throughout the State. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

The Executive Committee of the Board shall consist of the 
officers and such other members as may be elected every second 
year by the Board to membership in the Committee. 

The Executive Committee shall be the Board of Trustees for 
the State Board. It shall have the title with full control of all 
the property of the Board, except as restricted by the Board. The 
Executive Committee shall also serve as the Committee on Finance. 
It shall apportion the funds annually to the various uses of the 
Board, and shall have immediate charge of all property of the 
Board, wherever situated. 

All the workers appointed to work of college grade, shall be- 
fore the appointment takes effect, be approved by the Executive 
Committee, and each year at the annual meeting, all work, and 
the membership of all members, and representatives of the Exten- 
sion, of college grade, shall be subject to approval, or removal for 
cause, by the Committee. 

CoPTRiGHT 1890, BY Seth T, Stewart, Sec'j. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 3 

PRESIDENT. 
The President shall be that President of a College in the State 
who being a life member of the State Board, is elected President 
by the Board. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
The Vice-Presidents shall be any one or two of the Executive 
Committee elected, as such, by the Board. 

SUPERINTENDENT. 

The first Superintendent of School Extension in the State, 
shall be appointed by the General Superintendent. The term of 
office being two years, he shall after the Board is well organized 
be elected by the Board at the regular election, each second year. 

TREASURER. 
The Treasurer elected by the Executive Committee shall be 
the Treasurer for the State Board, and he shall hold the funds 
under the direction of the Executive Committee. 

SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall be the Secretary appointed by the General 
Secretary. He may appoint assistants who shall serve as Corres- 
ponding Secretaries of the different departments. He shall also, 
appoint, with the approval of the Executive Committee of the 
State Board, the local Secretaries of the Extension, who shall be 
under his general direction. 

MEETINGS. 

The State Board of Directors shall assemble yearly in the 
month of November and at the the close of each second annual meet- 
ing, the election of officers and other members, if any, of the 
Executive Committee, shall take place. The Executive Committee 
shall meet, also, each year, in the month of April. 



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DEPARTMENTS. 

A state department shall be organized for the students in each 
and every subject of education, for which the Executive Commit- 
tee of the National Board authorizes the formation of a depart- 
ment. The work in each department shall be under the direction 
of a College Society consisting of the state faculties of University 
Extension, and School Extension, for the given subject, and re- 
presentatives of any local Societies of workers in University and 
School Extension, in the subject, organized in the state in accordance 
with this Constitution. In the interest of unity of plan, all rules 
and regulations, however, shall be subject to approval by the Exe- 
cutive Committee of the State Board; and, the limit to the number 
of members in any of the auxiliary societies or clubs, of college 
grade, shall be subject to approval by the Executive Commitee of 
the National Board. 

FEES. 
One half of all registration, membership, and initiation fees 
received by the State Board shall be the property of the National 
Board, and shall be forwarded by the officer in possession of the 
same to the General Secretary, on or before the first day of Novem- 
ber, February, May, and August. On or before the first day of 
April in each year, the Board shall transmit to the National Board 
one tenth of all donations or endowments, received without 
restriction to the contrary. 

BY-LAWS. 

The Board may make, and, at any time, at a regular meeting, 
after one month's notice in writing to each member, it may change 
its By-Laws. 



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